Andrew Scheinman: Identifying an 'entrepreneur' in the wild

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Oct. 29, 2012

Andrew Scheinman

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I'm a patent attorney, I run my own practice, and my interactions are almost uniformly with people who either call themselves "entrepreneurs," or are given that name by others. However, if you think about it, it's actually rather a slippery term because - unlike wines - there's no official body that certifies entrepreneurs. And indeed it's likely to be a long time before we see anything like the French Institut national des appellations d'origine providing designations of source of origin for this particular activity.

So the first question I always ask myself when I meet self-designated or ...